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- Research: The Evaluator Alliances — Who Tests Whom, Who Pays, and Who Gains From Which RuleThe working map of the AI evaluators’ ties to the labs they test and the governments that are meant to oversee both: which outside evaluators each lab names in its own system cards, the government contracts, grants and board seats, the policy positions each faction argues and what each position would pay it, and the people who hold several of these seats at once. Every row sourced to the parties’ own documents.
- Research: The AI Evaluators — Who Grades the Frontier Models, Who Pays Them, and Who Is Buying ThemThe third-party evaluators the labs cite in their system cards: METR, Apollo, Irregular, Gray Swan, SecureBio, Redwood, Epoch, Palisade, Trail of Bits, Scale AI, Transluce, FAR.AI, Andon Labs and the government institutes. Who funds each, who they test, the 2026 evaluation escapes, the disclosed relationships between the graders and the graded, and OpenAI’s reported talks to buy Trail of Bits.
- Research: Leopold Aschenbrenner — The Fired Safety Researcher Who Wrote the AGI-Race Thesis, Then Traded ItColumbia at fifteen, OpenAI’s superalignment team, a contested 2024 firing, the 165-page Situational Awareness essay, and the hedge fund named after it: from $1.5 billion to a reported $45 billion peak, a July 2026 forced sale to Citadel, and a surviving stake in Anthropic. Both sides of the firing; every fund figure dated.
- The Slowdown CartelFour paying subscribers sued Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google for agreeing to be careful. Their lawyer says AI could kill us all. Their complaint says that is exactly why the labs may not decide it together.
- Research: The Security Council, the White House Lunch, and the xAI QuestionTwo frontier-lab CEOs briefed the UN Security Council on 23 September 2026. Six days later the White House produced a voluntary accord and renamed AI. What each party said, what was signed, who paid for what, and which of the claims that travelled with the story the record supports.
- Altman, 2023. Altman, 2026.In May 2023 Sam Altman asked the Senate for licensing above a capability threshold and intergovernmental oversight. In September 2026 he told the UN Security Council that standards should not lock in incumbents. Both are his words.
- The Deterrence MechanismDaniel Kokotajlo received the offer letter in May 2024. The letter was a separation agreement. It accompanied his resignation from OpenAI, where he had spent two years as a governance researcher working on the company’s policy on the…
- Research: The AI-Lab NDA and Non-Disparagement ClusterHow OpenAI’s pre-2024 exit paperwork tied a lifetime non-disparagement clause to vested equity — the mechanism, the reform arc, the refusers, and how the practice compares across labs and industries.
- The First Time a Chatbot Was Blamed for a KillingEvery prior chatbot-death suit involved a user who took their own life. In December 2025, the estate of an 83-year-old woman sued OpenAI for something new: her son’s chatbot, the suit alleges, fed his paranoia until he killed her.
- The CoastRunners Lagoon: The Funniest AI Failure Ever DocumentedA boat drives in circles, on fire, crashing into respawning score blocks. It won the race by never finishing it. The perfect metaphor for modern AI.